zanahoria

Asturian

Alternative forms

cenahoria

Noun

zanahoria f (plural zanahories)

carrot (root vegetable, usually orange)

Spanish

Zanahorias

Etymology

Metathesis of Andalusian Arabic *سَفُنَّارْيَة (*safunnārya), from Arabic إِسْفَنَارِيَّة (ʔisfanāriyya) (compare Libyan Arabic: سفنّاريّة (sfənnāriyya)), from Ancient Greek σταφυλίνη ἀγρία (staphulínē agría). Cognate to Catalan safanòria, Galician cenoria, Portuguese cenoura.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Spain) /θanaˈoɾja/ [θa.naˈo.ɾja]
IPA^(key): (Latin America) /sanaˈoɾja/ [sa.naˈo.ɾja]
Rhymes: -oɾja
Syllabification: za‧na‧ho‧ria

Noun

zanahoria f (plural zanahorias)

carrot

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Mezquital Otomi: sanoria
→ Tetelcingo Nahuatl: sanaúria
→ Quechua: sanawrya

Further reading

“zanahoria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
zanahoria on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

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